LLVM Weekly - #88, Sep 7th 2015

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The Hip-Hop Virtual Machine team (a JITting virtual machine for PHP and
Hack) have been looking at utilising LLVM as a
backend.
As part of this work, they've generated a number of patches that they're now
looking to upstream. Sanjoy and Philip (Azul) have volunteered to help review
the patches. With active work on Java (Azul), MSIL/C# (Microsoft), Python
(Dropbox) and now PHP/Hack (Facebook) there seems to be a growing number of
teams looking at improving LLVM when used for optimising higher-level
languages.